MAIMED ZEPPELINS

Auckland Star, Volume XLVII, Issue 239, 6 October 1916, Page 5

MAIMED ZEPPELINS

! STRAGGLING ACROSS NORTH ■SEA. - * ■ FRENCH AIRMEN FIND THE MARK. BIG AIRSHIP DESTROYED. " (Australian act! N.Z. Cable Association.) AMSTERDAM, October 5. German messages state, that the French airmen who raided Mannheim on September 22 destroyed a Zeppelin 750 ft in length. ' -" "-"'•" - A party of Germans recently interned in England protested to the German ConsuTTu; Flushing* that* Zeppelins bombed two German camps in England, thus placing their countrymen in great danger. They showed the Consul some, fragments of bombs. . Residents in Friesland report that one of the Zeppelins returning from England on Monday was severely damaged, i The stern had been cut off and the airship was sailing with difficulty., (Renter's Telegrams.) LONDON, October 5. , Fishermen of Esbjcrg sighted" on Monday at midday a Zeppelin which was evidently one of those which took part in Sunday's raid on England. It was half-submerged 33 miles off the island of Sylt. The airship was surrounded by German torpedo-boats and- destroyers. Two larger vessels were alongside, and were seen to be attempting to keep the airship afloat. ~..-. f EVERY MAN WANTED. END HOT IN SIGHT. CHIEF OF STAFF'S WARNING. , . (Renter's Telegrams.) LONDON, October 5. Speaking at the unveiling of - a war memorial, General Sir William Robertson (Chief of the Imperial General Staff) said: "We have now a reasonable amount of guns and .ammunition, and on the whole could view the future without any anxiety whatever. But we must be prepared'to continue the war for a time which at present is not estimable, "We want more men now, and eventually .shall want all we are able to spare. We are not justified in expecting to win unless the services of.every man and woman are utilised to the fullest extent." MAGICAL SURGERY. LESS AMPUTATIONS AND WONDERFUL GRAFTING. (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)' NEW YORK,. October 5. Dr. 'Alexis Carrel, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, saye the adoption of reforms in surgical methods throughout France has resulted in a vast diminution in amputation and fatal wounds. He says the use of the Dakin solution for wounds renders possible the grafting of tissue, bone and flesh on a scale hitherto impossible. Another reform is'the speeding-up the transport of wounded adoption of the American system of men. . ■] COLONIAL WOOL CLIP BEING EYED BY NEUTRALS. (Australiun sue , N.Z, Cable Association.) . LONDON, October 5. . At- a meeting of wool exporters with a sub-committee of the War Trade Department, it w»s pointed out that unless steps were taken this season these was grave danger of neutrals buying » large proportion of the colonhd t&L This would be ilinail innl ■ginmi -totw"ifactarers in Great Britain and the countries of the Allies.